Turning Someone Else’s Diary Into A New Story
A review of Kathryn Scanlan’s new book, “Aug 9 – Fog.”
Tag: Fiction
Bette Howland’s Long-Lost July 4th Story, “Aronesti”
The Chicago author Bette Howland published three books in her lifetime, won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, and was laudedContinue Reading
The Best Books of 2019 So Far
Including novels, short story collections, poetry, and nonfiction
Writing As A Way To Evade The Limits Of Mortality
A conversation with Chaya Bhuvaneswar about “White Dancing Elephants.”
Time Travel Makes Love Possible in ‘Opposite of Always’
In Justin A. Reynold’s debut YA time-travel romance, Opposite of Always, Jack King is a high school senior who isContinue Reading
The Slippery ‘Ghost Wall’ Warns Against the Dangers of Nativism and Nostalgia
On Sarah Moss’s haunting new novel about Brexit and the Iron Age.
‘Where Reasons End’ Examines the Power and Limitations of Language
On Yiyun Lee’s masterful, devastating new novel.
What Do a Solar Eclipse and the Iranian Revolution Have in Common?
While on the surface Rabeah Ghaffari’s To Keep the Sun Alive is about a family amid the Iranian revolution, the novelContinue Reading
‘Once Upon a River’ Is a Meta-Gothic Slow Burn
Diane Setterfield returns with a second follow-up to ‘The Thirteenth Tale.’
‘Evening in Paradise’ Is More Proof of Lucia Berlin’s Sainthood
On FSG’s second Berlin collection, two years after ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women.’
